Thane, Jul 15 (PTI) At least ten families living in tenements on a hillock in Bhiwandi city of Thane district were evacuated following a landslide on Saturday, officials said.

Nobody was injured in the incident which occurred in Ram Nagar area of the city.

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Civic officials rushed to the spot and shifted the resident families from the hillock to safer places.

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An official said the landslide was not of big magnitude as a result of which the houses were saved from crashing below.

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